Here’s a little bit of injury news that was lost in the Heat’s victory Tuesday night.
Before they wheeled him away on the back of a cart, Dwyane Wade grabbed both handrails to steady himself as he climbed up the stairs to the interview podium.
When he finished speaking, he limped away — although calling it a limp would actually be understating things about as much as anyone could understate them.
Put it this way: Wade could barely walk Wednesday, a day after Shaquille O’Neal took a charge, fell backward and rolled into Wade’s left knee, buckling it.
That’s right, he could barely walk.
“It’s very stiff and very sore,” Wade said. “So the only thing I can continue to do is what I’m ordered to do, and that’s a lot of icing and [stimulation] all day. I’m confident in my training staff that they’ll get me as close as I can be to 100 percent by tomorrow night.
“So, you know, I’m hoping.”
Shaq has been trying to take charges throughout the playoffs and I’m not exactly sure why, though I suppose he’s trying to avoid foul trouble. He’s not the shot blocker he once was but he can still change shots. A 330+ pound man trying to draw a charge forces the ref to make a call and it usually goes against Shaq. Here’s a case of Shaq trying to do something he’s not very good at, and as he’s doing it, he lands on Dwayne Wade’s knee. That’s just great.
